View a FREE sample

This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does each girl get for the ball?
(a) An individually-fitted dress.
(b) A new pair of shoes.
(c) A corsage.
(d) A list of dance partners.

2. To whom does Olana give the painting of the cottage?
(a) Britta as a wedding present.
(b) Miri's family.
(c) She keeps it herself.
(d) Gerti's family.

3. How many bandits do the villagers have?
(a) 2.
(b) 1.
(c) 6.
(d) 4.

4. How does Miri feel after dancing with the prince?
(a) Optimistic.
(b) Convinced she is not interested in him.
(c) Disappointed.
(d) Excited.

5. What happens to Knut?
(a) He dies from the wounds received when protecting the girls.
(b) He is severely incapacitated and is cared for by villagers.
(c) He goes to his home in the lowlands.
(d) He marries one of the girls from the academy and stays in the village.

6. What does Miri decide to let go?
(a) Her dreams of being the leader of the village.
(b) Her dreams of moving to the big city.
(c) Her dreams of working in the quarry.
(d) Her dreams of marrying Peder.

7. Which bandits do not desert Dan?
(a) Os.
(b) Only Dogface.
(c) Onor and Dogface.
(d) They all leave him.

8. What does Miri worry about after telling the true story of her mother?
(a) Miri will be rejected by the girls.
(b) Miri will die young like her mother.
(c) Being a burden on the village.
(d) Miri will not be as good as her mother.

9. What do the girls realize?
(a) No one will be coming to help them.
(b) The prince will return eventually and rescue them.
(c) The bandits are murderers also.
(d) The bandits will leave if they get the jewels in the cellar.

10. Who is caught as the girls flee?
(a) Miri.
(b) Frid.
(c) Olana.
(d) Britta.

11. What does Miri remember is in her pocket?
(a) A jagged piece of linder she had found.
(b) A letter opener.
(c) A small knife for peeling fruit.
(d) The linder hawk.

12. To what do Britta, Esa and Frid liken Miri?
(a) A bird whose wings are unpinned.
(b) A bird that soars on the upper air currents.
(c) A fawn who lost its mother in the forest.
(d) A lamb whose mother is killed by wolves.

13. What have the bandits ruined?
(a) A year's supply of meat.
(b) The ballroom.
(c) The books at the academy.
(d) The vegetables and fruit.

14. What happens to Britta as they wait for the prince?
(a) She faints.
(b) She breaks down and starts crying.
(c) She leaves the assembly.
(d) Nothing.

15. To what did Miri's first opinion change?
(a) She thought him arrogant.
(b) She thought him rude.
(c) She thought him inept on the dance floor.
(d) She thought him timid.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Britta think the prince will choose?

2. What does Miri realize about her family?

3. Why do the bandits hit Miri?

4. What does Miri keep from the academy?

5. What does Dan say he wants for his trouble?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 530 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample